Flurry

flurry-1.jpgIf you’ve seen the Flurry screensaver on Mac OS X before, and you’re a Windows user, you’re probably jealous.

Well, instead of turning completely green, download Flurry for Windows! It uses OpenGL, and the source code is also available, if you think you can do better, but need a push in the right direction.

It doesn’t like my multiple screen setup (the LCD and 17″ ViewSonic CRT), but the included readme.txt indicates that a driver update might fix that. I’ll check with ATI later. For now, I’m happy with only a single swirl to distract me.

Maybe my, with the extra RAM I’ve just acquired, my Indigo2 will have some purpose again. By purpose I mean “no use at all, other than displaying a screen saver all day for entertainment value.” These machines kick some ass when it comes to OpenGL (though a GeForce whatever can probably match/beat it).

2 Comments so far

  1. Radford on May 28th, 2004

    WOW! That is SOOOOOOOOOOO cool! ;)

  2. James on May 28th, 2004

    This is old, I’ve had this screensaver for over a year now.

    Jeez you programmers are slow with graphic related topics haha.

    If you have GeForce or ATI video card you shouldnt need the OpenGL files, back in the days of Voodoo2 and all those ‘Evil’ cards you would have needed to install OpenGl.

    On another note.. i think i have a Voodoo2 sitting in the spare room somewhere, that one one that you had to have the V2 card and a Video card in the same machine and connect them both using a loop back cable so when you played a game the voodoo2 kicked in.

    hows that for old technology..